He was a good man and served his country with honor.

Agree with what has been said. He was the one person I would have liked
to see run for Prez.

Sad day.

Apparently complications from Covid of all things.
Rest in Peace General.

RIP. One of the best! Very sad.

One of the first papers I remember writing in elementary school was on Colin Powell. I remember predicting that he was going to be president.

and was fully vaccinated. very crazy.

Not that crazy really. He was battling a form of cancer that left him severely immunocompromised. The more people that are vaccinated, the less people with these conditions need to worry about stuff like this.

getting vaccinated doesn't make you immortal. i know the anti-vax crowd likes to pretend the medical community makes that promise, in arguing against it.

I read his book and was hoping for the second book I had heard he was supposed to write but 9-11 and WMDs sort of blew the 2nd book out the window.

Yes, he had the chops needed to run this country as its President.

Plus, he was a car guy who liked getting his hands dirty. Drove a Corvette.

Double vaccinated. RIP

Sad loss for our country.

I admired him greatly. Even more so after hearing him speak and meeting him.
A man of Integrity and Compassion. The depth of his Intellect, and his writings are worth a visit.

Sadly, I felt he was a leader all Americans of both Parties respected.

I met him once at a trade show.
We were demonstrating our state-of-the-art high speed mailing equipment in Atlantic City, when he arrived with his entourage (I guess he had nothing better to do that day!).
He gazed intently, as our machine cranked out stuffed envelopes at the rate of 18,000 per hour.
Suddenly he asked, "what's the failure rate?" A fellow technician piped up, "about 30 percent".
After they had left, I said to my co-worker, "you dummy! Thirty percent? That means it jams three out of ten times!"
The correct response should have been, "Sir! Failure is not an option, Sir!"

100% truth and you are getting down voted. WTF is wrong with some of you people?

This is exactly why I wish he would have ran for office.

Because it's not "very crazy" that someone who was vaccinated had covid. It sounds like a talking point someone who is anti-vax would use in an attempt to discredit the vaccine which is highly effective.

Breakthrough cases are known and real. You still have a MUCH lower chance of getting seriously sick or dying from covid if you are vaccinated.

The media just keeps mentioning he died of COVID and is saying nothing about his cancer in headlines. IT IS ALL COVID RELATED DEATHS per the media, but they never mention the person had cancer or weighed 500 pounds and was in terrible health.

I would suggest reading/watching less news then. Stories are designed to get your attention, tug at your heart strings and bring out emotions. Obviously covid gets more attention than most other topics these days.

I miss when the news was about delivering the news to the viewer, not about delivering viewers to the advertisers...

Because these days people want to choose a side and are just dying to stomp on anyone who says anything that might possibly lead to an opinion that differs from theirs. Ridiculous that we are at this point and really sad to see it on a Pinball site. Can't you people just go do this crap on Facebook?

This has nothing to do with opinions for me, just facts. I haven't downvoted anybody in this thread either (but you have, lol)

And all you mentioned was that he was vaccinated.

It's like a Fakebook thread.

When I die I hope people don't use the opportunity to use my death and obituary to engage in some lame pissing match with a bunch of people they don't know just to rehash the same dumb Facebook arguments they've been engaging in for years.

Please just talk about how much you loved me. I'll even accept one of those classic "We didn't really agree on everything / I wasn't a huge fan, but I respect his work" kind of responses.

Thanks in advance!

RIP

Also, if you haven't already been banned, there's still an ongoing COVID thread here in case you still haven't had enough of this shit for the past two years. Come on over and join us! We'll be over there till the end of time pointlessly arguing about all of this stuff until we are all dead, vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.

Exactly!

Perfect explanation.

Powell helped promulgate the lie that there were WMDs in Iraq, that makes me extremely unsympathetic to his death, but my knowledge about his career is quite limited so if there's some good reason everyone here is overlooking that to call him a good man I'm interested to hear it.

what a legacy. I have friends whose families will be reeling from the trauma of his actions for generations.
Maybe he was saint outside of his role in the Iraq War? Don't really care. The numbers speak for themselves.

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I would ask you to cite your sources, but that would be pointless, since there aren't any for the things your are asserting (yes, shots have side effects but your assertion that they are "harmful" in the conventional sense is completely unfounded). And, absolutely, feel free to not get the shot, just keep your distance.

Man this is a rough crowd. Ok so for those keeping score:

The Op is sad he’s dead.

45 percent are glad he’s dead because he was vaccinated.

45 percent are glad he’s dead because of Iraq.

Remaining 9 percent have no opinion but just want to argue.

On second thought, when I die PLEASE do me one final favor and don’t mention it here.

RIP

thanks in advance!